2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike

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2007 Hollywood Strike  

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  1. 1. Who do you support in the strike?

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Grand Master

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CBS Announces Show Return Dates!

With the writers strike now over, CBS has announced the return of original episodes of its comedy and drama series. Here is the line-up (listed by show, anticipated return date, # of new episodes expected):

"How I Met Your Mother," March 17, 9

"The Big Bang Theory," March 17, 9

"Two and a Half Men," March 17, 9

"CSI: Miami," March 24, 8

"Cold Case," March 30, 5

"Criminal Minds," April 2, 7

"CSI: NY," April 2, 7

"CSI," April 3, 6

"Without a Trace," April 3, 6

"Ghost Whisperer," April 4, 6

"Numb3rs," April 4, 6

"NCIS," April 8, 7

"Moonlight," April 11, 4

"Rules of Engagement," April 14, 6

"Shark," TBA, 4

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So the big-shot writers got theirs, more pay and all that; good for them. Too bad for the ones who aren't making the big bucks, however. They get to suffer through lean pay or even lose their jobs and watch as the fat get fatter. Nothing changed except for writers getting revenue from online distribution.

Now there are working class people who weren't even writers--cameramen, set hands, artists, piecework actors--that have lost their jobs or worse. According to some sources, the strike cost the people of LA $1.5 billion.

As an additional side effect, the studios started producing more reality-show programming to fill in the spaces. Welcome to the new face of television; pray it doesn't stay around long.

Grand Master

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they cancelled 24... god dammit...

Postponed, not canceled.

So the big-shot writers got theirs, more pay and all that; good for them. Too bad for the ones who aren't making the big bucks, however. They get to suffer through lean pay or even lose their jobs and watch as the fat get fatter. Nothing changed except for writers getting revenue from online distribution.

Now there are working class people who weren't even writers--cameramen, set hands, artists, piecework actors--that have lost their jobs or worse. According to some sources, the strike cost the people of LA $1.5 billion.

As an additional side effect, the studios started producing more reality-show programming to fill in the spaces. Welcome to the new face of television; pray it doesn't stay around long.

Aren't you a few months late with some of these comments? Most of this was known/expected back when the strike was about to occur.

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So the big-shot writers got theirs, more pay and all that; good for them. Too bad for the ones who aren't making the big bucks, however. They get to suffer through lean pay or even lose their jobs and watch as the fat get fatter. Nothing changed except for writers getting revenue from online distribution.

Now there are working class people who weren't even writers--cameramen, set hands, artists, piecework actors--that have lost their jobs or worse. According to some sources, the strike cost the people of LA $1.5 billion.

As an additional side effect, the studios started producing more reality-show programming to fill in the spaces. Welcome to the new face of television; pray it doesn't stay around long.

:blink: Only 101 days late with that rant. Moving on now...

Grand Master

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Just a recap. Please don't troll.

I wasn't even aware of the writer's strike until this thread was well into its 30s pages.

You do realize that the point of a strike is to make other people suffer and there will be causalities, right?

And you say that only the wealthy writers gain from this? "So the big-shot writers got theirs, more pay and all that; good for them." The majority of the writers voted for the strike back in November. It isn't like the guild leaders woke up one morning and decided to go on strike. The AMPTP had plenty of time to get a deal, the deal they eventually got, back in September, two months before the strike happened, but Nick Counter, the lead negotiator would have none of it. Have you noticed that since the two sides went back to the table he hasn't been mentioned at all. His name isn't on any of the released documents, the press releases, etc. The congloms probably released that Nick Counter is counter productive and told him to keep his nose out of it.

This is a win for all current and future writers. Did it cost the LA economy? Absolutely, but that isn't the writers fault, that is the AMPTP and the greedy bastards who run the congloms. The writers were doing what they had to to stay in the business of an ever changing market. DVDs today, the internet tomorrow. Event he internet is bring large sums of revenue to companies like NBC and Disney already. Universal and Viacom (parent company of CBS) are sure to follow with those large sums of money in the near future and it will only continue to more lucrative.

Writers, even the "big shots" only make $.04 per DVD sale. The studios make $19+. The former CEO of Viacom made $60+ million severance package when he left last year. That's sick when he isn't the one who actually created any of the content that made him rich in the first place.

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You do realize that the majority of the 10,500 writers, the majority of them don't make $30-40K a year, right?

You people need to get the facts before you start forming opinions it seems.

Well they are getting paid too much to put out the crap we have on tv now a days.

Grand Master

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Well they are getting paid too much to put out the crap we have on tv now a days.

But can you blame the writers? They are hired to do a job and they do the best they can with what they've got. A lot of times the networks dictate what they can and cannot do.

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Too bad about Reaper, I really liked that show. However none of my other shows are speculated to be canceled so I'm pretty satisfied. And HIMYM has 9 more new episodes coming, so that is absolutely awesome. I can't wait for those to air.

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